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Ice Class Tanker Report - March 2012
An in-depth survey of the technical problems facing tanker operators, managers and owners trading in areas of very low temperatures
18,000 word Tanker Operator report published March 2012
Available to purchase online from our online store,
alternatively to order please e-mail Karl Jeffery, publisher, on jeffery@d-e-j.com ,
Tel +44 208 150 5292
SUMMARY
The ice class tanker industry is growing, driven by both a demand for oil shipments from Arctic oil and gas production, and from opening of the North Sea Route, across the North Coast of Russia. There were 9 tanker voyages across the North Sea Route during summer season of 2011.
North Sea Route voyages is not completely new - 200,000 tonnes of cargo shipped across it in 1993 - but this declined to zero voyages in summer 1997. The first western company to use the Northern Sea Route after this was Beluga in 2009, and Russian shuttle tanker operators serving Barents Sea offshore terminals and Murmansk around the same time.
Since then, we have seen several large tankers use the NSR on a trial basis carrying mainly condensate cargoes from northern Russia to South Korea and China, including the nine in 2011. There are more planned for the summer 2012 season.
Ice class tanker shipping is not for the faint hearted but it could be an opportunity for companies looking to develop new business, whether you operate vessels or supply equipment and services to them.
Tanker Operator's March 2012 ice class tanker report, "Another Gold Rush", written by veteran tanker industry journalist and Tanker Operator magazine editor Ian Cochran, goes into depth about everything we know about the ice class tankers so far.
Read reports from some of the 2011 tanker voyages,
Market analysis - bunker fuel savings from shorter distances via Northern Sea Route, how costs compare with Suez Canal when you take into consideration the cost of tugs, documentation and benefit of avoiding pirate infested areas
Regulatory developments - the IMO Polar Code, ice patrol services, ice navigator competency requirements, polar and ice class certification
The Northern Sea Route - in-depth voyage history - experience from SCF Unicom (for Sovcomflot), Neste Tankers, Marinvest, Transpetrol (+ more) Developments with supporting infrastructure, charts
Guidelines from class - ClassNK, LR, GL
Information services - IMO's Worldwide Navigational Warning System, integrating ice data with electronic charts, ice predictions
Technical developments - stern first (double acting tankers), ice load monitoring
Available to purchase online from our online store, alternatively to order please e-mail Karl Jeffery, publisher, on jeffery@d-e-j.com ,
Tel +44 208 150 5292
Download table of contents
To order your copy, please e-mail Karl Jeffery, publisher of Tanker Operator, on jeffery@d-e-j.com Tel +44 208 150 5292
2.1 What Arctic means for tanker industry
3 The opening up of the Arctic
3.1 Special designs for different areas of the Arctic
3.5 Northwest passage: zero shipping in Arctic North America
3.7 Challenges supplying fuel to Nome, Alaska
4 Potential business opportunities
4.1 Gibson Research market studies
4.2 Northern Sea Route – first commercial voyage in 2009
4.4 Accompanied by icebreakers
4.5 Novatek icebreaker agreement with Atomflot
4.6 Novatek – new Arctic LNG carrier
5.1 Regulatory framework for ice covered areas
5.6 Need a Polar Class designation
5.9 2012 structure draft Code of Safety for Ships Operating in Polar Waters
5.11 Polar Code timeline – into force 2013?
5.12 Sinking of the Explorer 2009
5.13 Proposals for ice navigator competencies
5.15 Polar classes – PC1 to PC7
5.16 Ice classes – 1A super to 1D
5.17 Ice class equivalent notation
6 Testing the Northern Sea Route (NSR)
6.1 Northern Sea Route Administration
6.3 9 tankers in 2011 – condensate Russia to Asia Pacific
6.4 40 per cent shorter distance than Suez Canal
6.6 200,000 tonnes of cargo in 1993 between Asia and Europe
6.9 STI Heritage voyage 2011 – Scorpio Ship Management
6.10 2010 – Aframax SCF Baltica for Sovcomflot
6.11 2011 – Vladimir Tikhonov - SCF
6.12 New route North of Novosibirskiye Ostrova archipelago
6.13 Neste tankers on NSR in 2011
6.16 Transpetrol’s Perseverance
6.17 SCF Unicom outlines passages taken
6.18.1 Shoreside infrastructure
6.19 $20k costs of documentation
6.21 Cost comparison with Suez route
6.22 South Tambey field in Yamal Peninsula
7 Does the Polar code go far enough?
7.1 Views of Dr Lawson Brigham
7.1.1 Does not cover all marine safety issues
7.1.2 Greenland rescue agreement
7.1.3 Human dimension is most important
8 ClassNK Ice Navigation Guidelines for Russian Territorial waters
8.1 Guidelines for NSR and Sakhalin routes
8.3 Defining concentration of ice
9 LR rules for vessels sailing stern first in ice
9.3 Standard operational scenarios
9.4 More double acting tankers in future
9.5 List of tankers with azipod propulsion
10.2 Work of Germanischer Lloyd experts
10.3 GL’s Guideline Arctic Shipping
10.4 3,000 ice class vessels with GL
10.6 OCIMF questionnaire on winter navigation
10.7 GL Academy – ice class seafarer training
11 IMO’s Worldwide Navigational Warning System for Arctic
11.1 COMSAR IMO / IHO / WMO correspondence group
11.3 AWT - structural icing paper
11.4 Inconsistent data during turbulent water
11.6 Use of electronic chart systems – views of Transas
11.7 Integrating ice objects within ECDIS
11.7.2 Tor Viking II ECDIS experience
12 SCF Sovcomflot – The ice experts
12.1 View of Sergey Frank, president and CEO
12.2 Sakhalin 1 - 5 Aframax tankers 1C/1A
12.3 Sakhalin 2 – 3 shuttle Aframaxes
12.4 Timofey Guzhenko – ice load monitoring system
12.8.1 Polar Class mini-shuttles
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